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Old 23-07-2020, 22:06   #3222
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Re: Brexit-Transitional Period Ends 31/12/20

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
More Tory hypocrisy. No surprise that Redwood is front & centre ..

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/statu...49623444525063
That's appalling hypocrisy. At times he posses the rare trait of making Cummings look a credible witness.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
.... and the reason for this is quite simple. Why should the EU dip into our back pockets, so to speak? Surely we have the the over-riding say over who fishes in our waters? It's called sovereignty.

They say the price for a trade deal is that the fishing status quo is maintained; after all, Barnier has said, if the UK regains control of its waters, the livelihoods of the EU's fishing community will be destroyed.
Like Pierre, I think fishing is less of an issue than a level playing field and involvement of the European courts in disputes. But I suspect the latter two can be spun in the same manner that a border in the Irish sea was. Deny it and then by the time the facts are known, people have lost interest.

I don't think we'll be going from "easiest deal ever" to "no deal" at the end of the year. I think BoJo will do a lot of huffing and puffing and then quietly roll over in the Autumn and acquiesce. Once again. Not the first politician to adopt this approach in the face of a stronger power and doubtless not the last. When was the last time we heard "They need us more than we need them?". Quite.

We saw BoJo hot foot it up to Scotland. No deal would give the SNP and devolution more support. BoJo doesn't want to go down in history as the PM who presided over the dissolution of the UK. Although I think that's unlikely given our Churchillian level of indebtedness at the moment. In reality, Northern Ireland is a more likely candidate to break away but not under the term of BoJo's Government.
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